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removing obsolete device drivers
Name: Vid Date: December 26, 2001 at 13:03:21 Pacific
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after playing around with Easy CD Creator 4.0 (despite warnings by XP) now I have a message showing CD cdralw2k.sys and cdr4_2k.sys as disabled everytime I boot up the system. Uninstalling the errant package somehow didnt do the trick. I need to find out how to get rid of this. please help.
Name: Marcial Zamora Date: December 26, 2001 at 15:52:42 Pacific
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When you say "package", do you mean you uninstalled only CD Creator program ? I would try uninstalling the cdrom device itself in device manager also, and let windows reinstall the drivers for it. Please let us know, how this works out.
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Response Number 2
Name: Vid Date: January 3, 2002 at 14:02:09 Pacific
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tried that also - but it seems to be reinstalling all of them (including the offensive ones). What i am trying to figure out is how to do a selective uninstall of drivers...
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Response Number 3
Name: wout van slooten Date: January 25, 2002 at 06:40:07 Pacific
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type regedit ( editor) and find task cdralw2k and cdr4_2k. follow instruction and lost away date and restart computer.
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Response Number 4
Name: Nicolas Date: March 25, 2002 at 01:42:07 Pacific
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I have the same pb but the CD Rom drive isn't recognised. I tried to repair by depacking Direct CD in a W98 and to transfer in my notebook run by XP. And my combo is now re-recognized but he doesn't read anything. How can I compelling my CD Rom drive to read CDs in order to reinstall Easy CD Creator 5 Basic ???
Summary: My computer information ( from xp help and support page ) shows that the status of my Obsolete Application Device Driver is NONE............is this o.k.? I don't quite understand what Obsolete Appli...
Summary: In device manager, remove the device completely, reboot, and it'll detect the hardware again, it'll prompt for a driver disk or location, specify the location, and try it that way. -=R=- ...
Summary: Hi, If my understanding is correct ;), a device driver is the software/firmware that enables some hardware to communicate with the OS (consists of some User interface software and the actual device...
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DVD copy software
